Max Hoedel

Max Hoedel (27 May 1857-16 August 1878) was a German anarchist who was executed for an assassination attempt on Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany.

Biography
Max Hoedel was born in Leipzig, Saxony in 1857, and he worked as a plumber for years. Hoedel was once a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, but he was later banned for his radical anarchist views. On 11 May 1878, he fired two shots at Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany with a revolver as he paraded in his carriage, and he mortally wounded a person who attempted to stop him. Hoedel was arrested and sentenced to death for high treason, and he was beheaded on 16 August 1878. Otto von Bismarck used the assassination attempt to ban the socialist SPD, although Hoedel had been banned from it.